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Your New Year's Resolutions

"We trained hard...but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized....I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.

Some things change and some things don't. What's your New Year's Resolution?

Greetings all and Happy New Year! Well, this year's New Year's was a roaring success. People stood out in the cold all over the world and celebrated. In New York they watched the ball drop, in Florida they watched a drag queen in a shoe drop and in New Orleans they watched a huge pot of gumbo drop, all activities that apparently make a lot more sense when you're plastered. Bucking the international trend, Meghan and I simply dropped from exhaustion, opting to stay inside by the fireplace. Let everybody else enjoy the cold this year, we thought.

I got to wondering what people's New Year's Resolutions were, so I thought I'd ask. What are your New Year's Resolutions, guys? If you haven't made a New Year's Resolution before, they should be practical, reasonable, helpful and achievable. Here are a few of mine as examples:

Build that bomb shelter.

Just once, play chess with a Belgian transvestite.

Go to Chinatown and ask for a hamburger.

Learn to speak Gaelic.

So what are you resolving to do differently this year, folks? Share it with the class.

Until next time, keep your pen on the page and your resolutions rolling in.

Steve Sharam
Make it one of your New Years Resolutions to visit my blog, where you'll find the meaning of life and a kicking recipe for biscuits.
www.whenrealityknocks.com

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Nice resolutions Steve... very practical. I really do think you can combine all of these. You can go into Chinatown, locate the nearest bomb shelter-turned-to-hamburger stand and order up. I'm sure the person behind you will be a Belgian transvestite and they will be speaking gaelic. challenge them to a game of chess with them and learn to speak gaelic while playing the game.

I know of a good Zen burger place where they will make you one with everything. :)

I resolve to be like white on rice for every straight line or joke setup (like that) I encounter. Talk about your really easy to keep resolutions !! ;)
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

I resolved long ago not to make resolutions, because I only get depressed when I break them, which is inevitable. But I do have some things I want to accomplish this year like finally unpacking and sorting out all the boxes left over from my last move 5 years ago, losing weight, eating better, exercising more, writing regularly in my journal with my new fountain pen, trying not to switch planner formats more often than once a month...

Hi Roberto! Yep, I have since acquired a retro51 and a Levenger truewriter. I like them both, although I find I reach for the truewriter more often. That could be because the ink I currently have in the truewriter is a really beautiful blue...

Sarah, hooray for you! Which color True Writer did you opt for? I have been eyeing up the blue one myself. It looks really snazzy in the Levenger catalog. Also, did it come with a converter so you can fill it yourself, or will you strictly use cartridges? I chose a black ink cartridge for my first go 'round, but have a blue one at the ready when the black runs dry. About the nib, is it fine or medium?

Yep, I got the blue one. It's beautiful. It has the fine tip, which I find to be perfect on my beloved Clairefontaine paper. It flows smoothly, not scratchy, but is fine enough to be a pleasure to write with. The balance is really nice on this pen. For now, I'm using cartridges, but it does come with a converter, too.

Unfortunately, now I have an insane desire to collect all the colors of the truewriters. This is partly because I would like to have several ink colors available at any one time, and so of course, if I want red ink, that can't be put into a blue pen, now, can it? Or blue into red. It's just... wrong somehow.

...I completely understand. Years ago I used to do quite a bit of bass fishing, and kept multiple rods with different rigs on each in my rented rowboat. No re-tying for me! Having several fountain pens with varying colored ink makes perfect sense to me.

I am currently using Levenger's Skies of Blue ink, and I love it. Not too dark, not too light, not dull.

As I try out new inks, I am keeping a piece of 24lb 118 bright white paper, and with each new ink I will add something to the paper. This should give a decent reference point for the colors, and eventually, when I have more than one color on there, I could put a photo up.
-Sarah

Wash out and refill cartridges from bottled ink.
That way, when you want to change colors, you can either dump the unused ink back in the bottle, or just discard it as you have a whole bottle full.
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

My resolutions are pretty boring...(I wish I had something exciting like Climb Mount Everest or Swim with Sharks)
*journal regularly (including keeping track of my dreams)
*keeping up on my art... even if it is just a quick sketch before bed
*getting and staying organized
*sending out birthday cards for everyone (on time)
*keep an open mind

I'll continue to eat healthier, drink tons of water, stay decaffinated, avoid sodas, and try to walk every day or two.

It is fun to see what everyone is planning for this year :o) Best wishes for everyone in 07.

Sara, good solid resolutions, I like them. One piece of advice, if I may. If you have a dream about your mother playing the ukelali in the London Symphony Orchestra while wearing a raincoat, experts advise that that means that you'll be hit by a van transporting cinnemon buns, but it won't hurt that much.

"If you have a dream about your mother playing the ukelali in the London Symphony Orchestra while wearing a raincoat"...

Fine. That's a dream about yo mama.

HOWEVER, if you have a dream about YOU playing the ukelali in the London Symphony Orchestra while wearing a raincoat, that's more the kind of goal setting we are talking about here.

Good luck.
(BTW, is there anything under the raincoat ?)

Ha, made you look !! :)
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

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